Free Almost

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DOCLINE A Specialized ILL System

• Free! (Almost)
• from the National Library of Medicine

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What Is DOCLINE?

• Interlibrary Loan System for sharing medical,
  health, and related information
• Primarily used to send requests for, and receive
  copies of journal articles
• Works closely with PubMed (MEDLINE on the Web)

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Who Uses DOCLINE?

• Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers
• Colleges and Universities with Nursing,
  Veterinary, and Other Health Programs
• Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies
• Consumer Health Libraries and a few Public
  Libraries

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Whats Different about DOCLINE?

• DOCLINE only ILL system used by many libraries
  that specialize in health and medical information
  
• Rarely need to look up locations (Automated
  routing based on serials holdings records)
• National Library of Medicine prefers to receive
  requests via DOCLINE

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DOCLINE Is Free! (Almost)

• No charges for joining, no connect or
  subscription charges for use
• Connectivity and software Web access and browser
  (Your library probably already has)
• However, some participation requirements
• Input serials holdings information
• Read account daily and respond
• Keep directory information up-to-date

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Serials Holdings Information

• Must input holdings for at least 25 serials,
  prefer medical and health-related
• Serials must be listed in LOCATORplus (NLMs
  Online Catalog)
• Not necessarily medical
• General (e.g. Newsweek, Time, U.S. News World
  Report)
• Business (e.g. Business Week, Forbes,)
• Academic non-medical (e.g. Nature, Science,
  Scientific American)
• Others

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Why Bother?

• If frequent needs for medical and health
  information, DOCLINE best for ILL
• All U.S. libraries with good medical/health
  collections use DOCLINEand give it high priority
• DOCLINE libraries can participate in FreeShare!
• National reciprocal agreement within DOCLINE
• Libraries borrow and lend to each other for no
  charge
• 932 libraries participate so far

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Borrow-Only Another Option

• Use of DOCLINE for borrowing but not lending
• No requirement to enter serials holdings
• An option when needs for medical/health
  information are less frequent
• FreeShare participation not availableLenders
  will charge

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Access Without DOCLINE

• National Library of Medicine accepts ALA forms
  but lower priority
• Pacific Northwest libraries serials holdings
• http//nnlm.gov/pnr/serhold/ftp.select.html
• Free medical/health journals on the Web
• http//www.freemedicaljournals.com/

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Questions?

• Contact your local National Network of Libraries
  of Medicines Regional Medical Library office
  from within the U.S. at

1-800-338-7657